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Regina Santos-Aviles, a congressional staffer to Rep. Tony Gonzales, died Sunday after authorities found her on fire at her Uvalde home. She was 35.
Uvalde paramedics, firefighters and police were called to the scene for a disturbance. Officials said her body had caught fire, and she was transported via helicopter to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to be treated for extensive burns.
Santos-Aviles was pronounced dead Sunday morning. More
Hot blooded Latins; to be expected.
Spontaneous combustion? I was seriously burned because of those EPA gas cans that spill all over the place.
Didn’t Gavin Newsom say “fight fire with fire?”
Articles leaves more questions than answers.
@ anon
you need like 4 hands to operate those stupid things and they still spill everywhere. Now I just take the nozzle of and use a funnel, which lets you overfill the tool quickly spilling same amount of gas everywhere. The EPA sucks!
Gavin Newsom can’t even manage to fight fire with water.
They are saying “no foul play,” but people don’t just catch on fire and burn to death out of the blue. It’s weird and I look forward to seeing updates on this one.
Was she trying to cook her own Meth?
What’s weird is that they say her body caught fire. Not her clothes? Is that the way something like this is normally stated?
I use a metal safety can like the one below that has a self-closing lid, a large handle for opening it, a flame arrestor inside, and a funnel attached on the outside. That’s it. No stupid vents, no plugs, no turning this or yanking on that, and you can easily remove the funnel if you like but I have found it very convenient to swing it up and swing it down.
I am not endorsing this seller or even know anything about them, this is just representative of the can.
https://www.homelectrical.com/5-gallon-red-type-i-safety-can-funnel.jus-7150110.1.html?campaignid=425856290&adgroupid=1232552799985703&creative=&matchtype=e&network=o&device=c&keyword=&msclkid=8662b5028cbb14e226a6ddcff3205633&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BHawk%5D%5BShopping%5D%20Catch-All&utm_term=4580634178334566&utm_content=Catch-All
…I learned about safety cans with flame arrestors many years ago, actually as a preteen. Me and my friends were bored and in the driveway next to my folks’ open garage door, and there was a can of gasoline in the plastic type container with a 1970ish tube on the end in there. Somehow we came to the idea it would be fun to soak a wad of paper in gasoline and play flameball soccer with it. The first round went well until the ball’s flames started to gutter, and my ginger buddy decided the best way to keep the fun going was to pour gasoline on it before it went all the way out.
He did, and not only did it light up but so did the hose, and so did his face and arm when he dropped the can in surprise and the flexible hose annointed him with flaming gasoline. It went down into the can too, but as God protects fools it somehow went out after making this wonderful whistling POP! and permanently damaging the plastic sides without blowing them out.
We were ’70s kids and didn’t know from STOP, DROP, ROLL, so we smacked him out good and quenched the flames somehow (again, God protects fools and young children and we were kinda both), and proceeded to plot how we would get him longer sleeves and how to hide his face with his ginger complexion now showing us EXACTLY where he had been touched by the unholy fire, because concealment is prioritized by kids over safety and telling parents and stuff.
We didn’t get away with it super long, as faces are hard to cover and my dad wasn’t happy that his gas can couldn’t sit level anymore, so we lost our garage privileges and never played fire soccer again.
…But if we had the SAFETY CAN, we may have become the Pele’s of Promethean soccer today and created an entirely new sport, who knows…
…Seriously, though. Use METAL CANS with FLAME ARRESTORS and SELF-CLOSING LIDS. It’s MUCH safer and easier to use than that plastic fantastic crap.
…we didn’t stop being idiots, there was a time I took my ginger buddy for a tow with a dirt bike and him on a skateboard that abruptly demonstrated the friction of gravel at the exit of the parking lot, but that’s a different story for another day…
…I wonder if Uvalde’s FD is in the same class as their PD. It would explain a lot that just isnt in this article if so…
https://iotwreport.com/bodycam-footage-shows-uvalde-cops-complained-they-were-afraid-to-get-shot-during-massacre/
SNS
Thanks for that great advice!
“Officials said her body had caught fire…”
…this is a really weird, passive statement. Spontaneus human combustion not being a “thing”, human bodies do not simply “catch fire”, there has to be some external impetus for it, especially if the body in question is ALIVE and presumedly resisting being set on fire.
Theres no apparent need to not tell us where the fire CAME from, or if she was ALIVE at the time, but they just…dont.
I wonder why?
“Didn’t Gavin Newsom say “fight fire with fire?””
Well there is a thing called a back fire. Unfortunately we don’t use it in Cali because Newsom things it means lighting your own farts.
I think I’m conspiracy theoried out. But this don’t sound right. And I don’t believe in internal human combustion.
Pogo
Friday, 19 September 2025, 12:19 at 12:19 pm
“Was she trying to cook her own Meth?”
…Ive been to Meth “lab” fires. They usually start with explosions and do some pretty serious damage to the building. And the smell of the ammonia makes you think the world’s biggest cat just tried to pee it out…
I bet they will find she was smoking something, passed out, and the hot coal set her clothing or bedding on fire.
it wasn’t an accident
I would chalk this up too-
There’s very little you can trust in the media.
You guys do know she was a REPUBLICAN staffer right? Why are you people trying to paint her as a crack smoking whore? Highly doubtful.
@sns
As idiot kids we played flaming soccer by soaking tennis balls instead as the fuzz held gasoline well. Miraculously the only thing we burned were the tips of our sneakers when it splashed off when kicking it. We also had the fun but idiotic idea of putting a generous line of gasoline across the road and igniting it with the flaming soccer tennis ball from what we considered a safe difference. It made what we thought to be a glorious wall of fire after dark.
Bad_Brad
Friday, 19 September 2025, 13:15 at 1:15 pm
“You guys do know she was a REPUBLICAN staffer right? Why are you people trying to paint her as a crack smoking whore? ”
…I’m not. I’m just trying to understand the lack of information. Usually reporters salivate to get the details out, the more lurid the better even if they have to make them up.
Not THIS time. We get nothing other than a woman on fire, we dont even know if she was alive or dead WHILE burining, and theyre pretty quick to dismiss “foul play”, and when I see “says the Uvalde police chief” I REALLY have to question it.
Fire calls usually arent dispatched as a “disturbance”, either. And theres nothing in the article to suggest there was a car or building involved, which is usually what gets people’s attention.
And nothing about WHERE or HOW or WITH WHAT she was burned. Just “extensive”.
Its just REALLY out of character to get so much nothing about what SHOULD be a fairly simple report that SHOULD be a public record. Either they are experiencing the Charlie Kirk effect and afraid to say anything about even a minor political figure, or there’s something they havent decided on how they want to hide/spin/lie about yet.
It just makes no sense as reported, is all Im saying.
That, and that it looks NOTHING like a meth house fire…
Most household deaths by burning here in Texas are usually related to deep frying whole turkey’s. Think a large propane burner, a 3 gallon stockpot half full of peanut oil, and a whole turkey. When the turkey is dipped in, if the operator doesn’t have the oil level right, it overflows, drips into the burner and ignites. Fire departments here do public safety demonstrations regarding this every November.
I expect it will be something like this, or some kind of combination of a common accellerant (spilled vodka?) and open flame. Patio fire pit, etc… Though it hasn’t been cool enough in the evening for those just yet. Synthetic fabric, polyester and spandex splashed with liquor and ignited will burn ferociously and are difficult to put out and/or treat, as they fuse with the skin.
KR
SNS
I didn’t think you were. Terrible way to die.
When I was in Boy Scouts we are facing off on the Marathon Plain. Us as the Spartans avenging our loss in the first round vs the other troop the Athenians attempting to add insult to injury.
A flaming marshmallow on a stick reared back and flung at the enemy went past their head making a hell of a hell of a buzzing sound and scared the shit out of em. I was one of better shots and nailed one right in the left shoulder blade.
Despite supposedly being a trained Boy Scout and everyone shouting instructions he wasn’t having no part of Stop, Drop and Roll. The poor dumb bastard took off running and that only put more oxygen to it. Fanning the flame, so to speak.
We probably weren’t exactly the best example of Spartans in as much as we had pity on the enemy and helped tackle him and put it out, then we cleaned and dressed his wound.
There was absolutely no excuse for them to go making a big stink out of it other than to try and deflect from their failures in battle.
Restriction for life ain’t that bad. I got on it a lot. It only lasts a couple weeks or so.
Being Uvalde, the police on the scene arrested anyone trying to put her out.
Remember Lori Klausutis, the intern found dead in “Morning” Joe Scarborough’s office? Neither do I.
Who called it in, Tony Gonzales? 🤔
The kid across the street and I once made a molotov cocktail from an old gallon Gallo wine jug and dropped it off a bridge onto the road below. Damn thing went off like a bomb. I’m glad that when I was young that there weren’t cameras around like there are today.